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A Balanced Learning Environment

Program Elements
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Program Summary
Status: 12 months (full-time employment per Peak Vista)

Program Foundations

  • Program Foundations Benner’s Novice to Expert Model

  • ACGME Core Competencies

  • IOM (2010) The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health

Orientation
One-week orientation to Peak Vista, including extensive EHR training followed by a one-week In-Clinic Fellowship orientation

Experiential Learning

Precepted Outpatient Psychiatry Practice Clinic

  • Five fellows/three dedicated preceptors

  • Fellows gradually increase patient load working to a full panel

Out-Rotations

  • Inpatient Rotation

  • Crisis Rotation

  • Developmentally Disabled Clinic Rotation

  • Primary Care Rotation

Didactic Education

  • Problem-based learning in clinical immersion settings

  • Didactic curriculum designed to support the new graduate’s academic preparation related to patient needs frequently encountered in the outpatient psychiatry environment within a safety net setting

  • Ongoing interactions with Preceptors to enhance understanding of safe, effective prescriptive practice in psychiatry

  • Monthly Board Review in conjunction with the FNP track

  • Directed CME

Quality Improvement Project (QI)

  • Population focused

  • Fellow identified, planned and implemented clinical practice improvements

  • Plan. Do. Study. Act. (PDSA) QI DORA Compliance

Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) Compliance

  • 750 hours Precepted Prescriptive practice

  • Mentorship Agreement

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